Nevada · Nonprofit
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,487,758 to it, the largest being Tahoe Community Foundation ($289,730). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival does
Mission
The mission of Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is to enrich our community by providing the highest quality theatrical and cultural productions for the residents of the greater lake tahoe area and visitors from all over the world. We also provide meaningful educational experiences for youth by offering theatrical outreach programs throughout our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shakespeare at lake tahoe draws thousands of tourists each year to the local area to see the production of shakespearean plays.
$2,305,618 spent$2,313,289 earned by the program99% of program spendingYoung shakespeare, interact and camp are programs designed as an outreach of education to children, exposing them to shakespeare and the importance of theatre, music and art in their everyday lives.
$34,779 spent$9,300 earned by the program1% of program spendingNumerous artistic and musical performances are presented to the general public during the course of the year outside of the shakespeare festival, allowing additional exposure to cultural events.
$69,623 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,340,397.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $4.2M (+91%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 14% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Patty Jansen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $76k → $250k.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 20% · 2020 15% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $693k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL?
- LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,487,758 to it, the largest being Tahoe Community Foundation ($289,730). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,487,758 in grants to LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL?
- Tahoe Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $289,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing